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Sowmya Raoh is an Indian playback singer who has performed in Kannada language, Tamil language, Hindi language and Telugu language languages.
Sowmya started singing at the age of seven. She took a break from singing while she was in school as she thought that would affect her studies. After a period of five to six years, she gradually turned her attention towards singing by learning Carnatic music. However, she ended up becoming a voice actor before venturing into films. She claims that, "I wanted to train for singing for heroines, not children".
Sowmya started her career in Bollywood in 2000. Her first assignment was for the song "Soul of Jungle", followed by a background track for the film Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya. Company was her first as a singer in Hindi. By this time she also sang for other Hindi films such as Dum and Bunty Aur Babli. In 2012, her item number 'Dreamum Wakeupum' for Sachin Kundalkar's Aiyyaa emerged a chartbuster and the song was also appreciated for its dance performance by Rani Mukerji and Prithviraj Sukumaran.
Having worked with composers such as Ilaiyaraaja and A. R. Rahman, she recorded over 200 songs in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada, as of 2006.
Musical career
Sowmya started her career as a singer in south Indian films in 1993, and got a break in Bollywood nine years later. Her major break happened when composer Sandeep Chowta was looking for a singer who could sing well in Hindi. He chose Sowmya for a song ("Greekuveerudu") in the Telugu language film Ninne Pelladata. The song gave her a much needed break. She went on to record the song in the Tamil and Hindi versions too.
Selected discography
Devan Ekambaram Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vijay Yesudas Udit Narayan, Premgi Amaren Sonu Nigam Abhijeet Bhattacharya Sonu Nigam Shankar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa Sandeep Chowta Qadar Niazi Qawwal Naresh Iyer Franko, Solar Sai Shaan, Wajid Nikhil Mathew, Chinmayi Sripada, Sadhana Sargam Raphi Udit Narayan Udit Narayan Javed Ali Hrishikesh Lamrekar, Nikita Nigam, Suzanne D'Mello Neeraj Shridhar Kailash Kher Sandeep Chowta Tippu Amit Trivedi Thaman
Accolades
Filmfare Awards
Stardust Awards
External links
Categories: Official, Living People, Indian Women Playback Singers, Kannada Playback Singers, Tamil Playback Singers, Telugu Playback Singers, Filmfare Awards South Winners, Singers From Bengaluru, Film Musicians From Karnataka, 21st-century Indian Women Singers, 21st-century Indian Singers, 1973 Births
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